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Occupational Health & Safety

Date Published:

December 5th, 2017

United States Department of LaborOccupational Safety and Health and Administration

Workplace violence is a serious safety and health issue. Its most extreme form, homicide, is the fourth-leading cause of fatal occupational injury in the United States. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), there were 564 workplace homicides in 2006 in the United States, out of a total of 5,734 fatal work injuries.